Lionel Tate, the teenager freed in January after a court overturned his life sentence for killing a playmate at age 12, can return to his mother's home while he serves probation, a judge decided. Mr. Tate, now 17, had been living with another family...

November 30, 2004, Tuesday

MIAMI, Sept. 8 - Lionel Tate, the teenager freed from prison in January after a court overturned his life sentence for killing a playmate at age 12, has been charged with violating probation after the authorities said they had found him out at night...

Lionel Tate, the teenager whose life sentence for killing a girl when he was 12 was overturned last month, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that allowed his immediate release. Lionel , who turns 17 on Friday, was tried and convicted...

By ABBY GOODNOUGH; Perry Athanason contributed reporting for this article

Lionel Tate, the teenager sentenced to life in prison for killing a playmate when he was 12, was released to his mother on Monday, four days short of his 17th birthday. Judge Joel T. Lazarus of Broward County Circuit Court ordered Lionel freed...

With his life sentence for killing a 6-year-old playmate overturned, a teenager signed documents on Sunday pleading guilty to second-degree murder in a deal that could get him out of prison as early as this month. The teenager, Lionel Tate, signed...

Lionel Tate, the teenager whose life sentence for killing a 6-year-old playmate was overturned this month, will accept a plea bargain allowing him to leave prison by March, lawyers said Wednesday. Henry Hunter, a lawyer for Lionel's mother,...

Though the state attorney general's office says it supports the efforts to resolve the case of Lionel Tate, a teenager sentenced to life for killing a 6-year-old playmate, the office asked the Fourth District Court of Appeals to reconsider its...

Prosecutors offered a plea bargain on Friday to the 16-year-old whose life sentence for kicking, slamming and stomping a 6-year-old to death was overturned this month. The agreement would require the teenager, Lionel Tate, who was 12 when he killed,...

A Florida appeals court panel ordered a new trial on Wednesday for Lionel Tate, whose life prison sentence for murdering a playmate when he was 12 became an international rallying point against treating juvenile offenders as harshly as adults. A...

A warden who supervised the teenager sentenced to life in prison for beating a playmate to death when he was 12 told aides to Gov. Jeb Bush today that the teenager deserved clemency. The warden, Curtis Ranum, joined the lawyers for the teenager,...